Johannis Kunckelii, churfürstl. Brandenb. würcklich bestallt-geheimden Cammer-Dieners, Ars vitraria experimentalis, oder, Vollkommene Glasmacher-Kunst
Subtitle: lehrende, als in einem ... commentario über die ... sieben Bücher P. Anthonii Neri von Florenz, und denen ... Anmerckungen Christophori Merretti ... (so aus den Ital. und Latein. beyde mit Fleiss ins Hochdeutsche übersetzt) die allerkurtz bundigsten Manieren, das reineste Chrystall-Glas, alle gefärbte oder tingirte Gläser, künstliche Edelstein oder Flüsse ... zu machen ... : sampt einem II. Haupt-Thiel, so in drey unterschiedenen Bücher und mehr als 200 Experimenten bestehet, darinnen vom Glasmahlen, Vergulden und Brennen ... Türckisch Pappier, [et]c. ... und viel andere ungemeine Sachen zu machen, gelehret werden : mit einem Anhange von denen Perlen und fast allen natürlichen Edelsteinen ...
Contributors: Neri, Antonio, d. 1614; Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695; Lhibenau, Lucinos a, 17th cent; Häublin, Nicolaus, fl. 1666-1682
Publisher: In Verlegung des Autoris
Published: 1679
Place of publication: Franckfurt und Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Precious stones; Artificial Precious stones; Glass manufacture
Other titles: Vollkommene Glasmacher-Kunst; Ioh. Kunckeli Ars vitraria experimentalis
Work titles: Ars vitraria experimentalis
Notes: Two related issues appeared in the same year, both printed by Günther in Leipzig. The first has publisher statement: Auff Kosten des Autoris, bey Johann Bielcke, Buchführern in Jena. The imprint of the second is Amsterdam & Danzig, with the author and Bielcke as publishers.

Pt. 2 has separate t.p.

Frontispiece port. of Kunckel has legend: Luc. a Lhibenau Von Wehrd. This should probably be interpreted to mean that the port. was engraved after Lhibenau by von Wehrd, i.e. Nicolaus Häublin; see Thieme-Becker. Following the port. is an engraved allegorical added title leaf, with title: Ioh. Kunckeli Ars vitraria experimentalis. There are 20 leaves of engraved ill., 17 of them full-page, as well as in-text woodcuts.  Head- and tail-pieces, ornamental initials.

Page numbers 153-154 omitted.

Signatures: [superscript pi][A]p2s [superscript pi]Bp4s [superscript pi](C)p2s A-2Up4s 2Xp2s 3A-3Zp4s.

In Getty copy preliminary gathering (C)p2s, the table of contents for Neri's Glas-Kunst, is bound after 2X2.

Binding: vellum, lapped foredges, with remains of 2 pairs of ties. Title & author written at head of spine; below them, a large T.

At head of title is ownership inscription of the Carmelites of Vienna. On back pastedown is 17-line inscription in German giving a recipe for varnish.